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Lizzie Borden, 1890

Infographic titled Lizzie Borden rhyme featuring the famous rhyme about Lizzie Borden taking an ax, highlighted in yellow on a parchment background, with surrounding fact boxes about the Borden murders, trial, and details of the victims' injuries. Rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks, And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.

A sepia-toned image of Lizzie Borden's face is overlaid with a bright white axe shape, containing blue text reading really a monster? Blurred text and stains appear in the background.

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